Humph," She sighed as she pushed her messy black hair out from in front of her eyes so that she see the television screen, in front of her.
It was true, that she had spent most of her teenage years on the run, she knew what she had done was right, and she protected her sister from all the experiments and tests that she was forced to undertake. Excruciating, invasive and highly illegal experiments all to try and create an artificial super devil.
There was no way that she was going to allow these tests to be conducted on her little sister, she would do anything. And she did, she remembers everything that she did to that man, she enjoyed killing him, she enjoyed seeing the fear on his face when he realised that he had trained her to the point where her power equipped him and drafted him even.
She remember him saying that he was a Nebiros, an extra clan of demons outside that of the 72 pillars, one of six clans that personally belonged to the house of Lucifer, similar to that of the Lucifage clan. And he begged for his life, to who, in his eyes was a lower life form. Made her happy.
Happy that he would never be able to experiment and torture anyone else as he had done to her and especially her sister.
But the murder of her old master in the defence of herself and her younger sister through her life into disarray, constant running and hiding but somehow she had always ended up back in Japan. during her time on the run, she always found some downtime.
With her Senjitsu powers was always able to stay one step ahead of her pursuers and actually receive quite a fair amount of downtime while on the run.
Perhaps it was the fact that she never had any way to settle down. This was different, ever since earning back her freedom and joining the Buer peerage, Kuroka had enjoyed completing video games that she was interested in.
Currently, she is playing Hogwarts Legacy on the PS5 and was almost 95% completed with her finishing the main story around 15 hours ago. As she sat there she stretched her left arm wrapping her fingers around a glass of orange juice the head she had brought down into the gaming den on her travels from her bedroom, past the kitchen before entering the elevator and going to the second floor where the gaming room was.
Many of the new comrades and friends were very surprised at how addicted Kuroka had become to playing video games. These games were not just played on the PS5 but also the some were on the Nintendo Switch as well.
Perhaps it was Muryama who was the most surprised by this as when she first met the black cat there was sense some sense of hesitation in the young girl. This mainly stemmed from seeing what she could do in the training Dojo easily took her sister and Kiba out with relative ease.
Fixing the left-hand side of her kimono she noticed it had slipped a bit too far down her arm exposing the top of her elbow. As a result, the top of her left nipple had become exposed revealing its pinky colour to the room around her.
This didn't bother her, actually kind of making her chuckle at the reflection on the television. well, it didn't bother her who walked in as she didn't mind if her Master did. He would be the father to her kittens whether he knew that yet or not.
Continuing to bash onto the buttons as she watched her character do a flurry of spells her mind began to wander off the game and back to where or rather what master was currently doing she knew that he was preparing for a meeting with the leader of the Norse faction as he was coming to Kuoh before going down to Kyoto to meet the yokai as well as Shinto gods.
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Knock, knock, knock, the sound echoed throughout the main level of the Hyoudou residence causing a familiar-haired female to finish what she was doing in the kitchen.
Pulling her hands out of the water before shaking and gently knocking off any excess water that may still be situated onto her hands Akeno preceded to get a small hand towel that sat neatly hung over the handle of this stainless steel oven, placing it back when she was finished with it as she had just found it before proceeding to walk towards the door.
And she continued down the hall, the clicking of the young lady's brown school shoes emanating off the timber hardwood floors as she made her way down the hallway out from the kitchen and towards the main entrance of the residence.
She knew who was on the other side of the door, well she had an educated assumption on who it should be. She knew that the Issei was on its way to meet with Rias, as she was the holder of authority within Kouh and with this somewhat unofficial visit from Odin, there were things that they had to discuss with Sona before his arrival.
She was unsure of why he had chosen to come and see the devils as he had not long ago seen them at the meeting where the Norse officially joined their alliance. She knew perhaps he was coming to see Issei and Vali but she was also unsure if it would be a long stay or just a short stint.
She never had fathered that her father, the fallen Angel cadre and one who she had begun just slowly rekindle their relationship with was the most likely candidate to be his bodyguard.
She knew that the fallen Angel governor was sly and sneaky in that regard laying seeds long before he needed them to ferment. This was one thing but she despised her father species' manipulation or rather arrogance that many of the fallen angels fell from grace was one thing that she still found very mistrusting.
she would rather be told bluntly what was going on rather than being kept in the dark on a lot of things especially those that had to do with her best friend and her boyfriend's safety at most.
Arriving at the dark oak door the Raven-headed queen proceeded to straighten up, pulling down and lightly dusting off the school skirt knowing that she would have to look presentable enough not to embarrass her Master in front of a leader of a godly faction.
Turning the golden knob of the door and proceeding to open it by pulling it towards herself she was quickly greeted with the appearance of three individuals who were standing there presently calm and gracious waiting for their call to be answered.
"Greetings my Lord and my Lady I formally welcome you to the Hyoudou residence, we have been expecting your company, however, my Lord and Lady are currently not here at the moment. they asked me to tell you that we will be meeting them at the old school building, in a formal setting to our arrangement," Akeno said as she bowed politely towards the old God and his two companions.
Chuckling happily and eagerly as he looked up at the raven head half fallen Angel, Odin couldn't help but stroke his long white beard as he continued to do so at the slight change of events that even he failed to foresee.
"What do you mean Akeno" her father replied gruffly not liking the change of plan.
Expecting somewhat of a confrontation with her father due to this very issue of him not liking changes of plans, the younger of the two fallen angels kindly smiled towards her father as she opened up a teleportation circle underneath the three of them before walking towards them.
"Forgive me, Father, Lady Gremory will explain everything when we arrive," Akeno said as she stood in front of the three of them as a magical circle enveloped them transporting him towards the old school building in Kuoh.
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So what is the plan my dear" Rias said as she looked towards her future husband as he sat there on the couch reading the latest chapter of one piece that he had just gotten earlier on that day.
Almost as if he did not hear what she had said to him due to being so engrossed in the current plot of what he was reading, the future Lord of the shadowlands of the underworld continued to read his book contemplating on what was currently partaking in it while also thinking about the meeting that would be happening shortly.
Continuing to look at him as he continued to read his book an expression of frustration grew on the redhead's face as she scratched up a piece of paper that sat at the top of her stack on her desk.
Scrunching it into her hand the off-white coloured paper folded easily creasing in many different directions behind the strength at her hand.
Scowling at her future husband Rias proceeded to throw the ball of paper at her future husband connecting perfectly as she watched the paper bounce off his forehead before hitting the book in front of him.
Shocked at the frustration that she currently had towards him the young man was highly surprised that she threw something at him in frustration rather than playful banter.
Although the two, like any other couple had their arguments in the past she was frustrated with something that he found quite difficult to get out of his future bride. Due to her upbringing, she had learned to mask these emotions quite effortlessly keeping an emotionless face while thinking behind her façade.
Watching as the paper ricocheted onto the ground Issei sighed as he closed the manga before gently dispersing it into a magical circle where he knew it would appear on his bedroom nightstand back at his house. Sitting up before stretching his back out the young king soon stretched down to pick up the piece of paper that was thrown his way.
Ticking his tongue in a changing manner knowing that it would potentially add to his future wife's frustration issei disintegrated said piece of paper in his sphere of darkness standing up and dusting himself off.
Well, my dear if you didn't let your frustration and anxiety get the better of you and waited for me to finish that last page I would have kindly told you what was going on or how I believe we should precede for this meeting" he said as he looked towards his future bride as she crossed her arms underneath her bust before pouting and turning her head to look away from him.
"Well you've had more interactions with this man and I don't entirely know how to deal with it," Rias said pouting as he chuckled at her childlike behaviour.
"You are the sister of Satan and the most powerful devil in our history and you are worried about meeting this old man, only is no different than your older brother and Odin is more perverted and yes he's a God rather than a devil, however just talk to him in the same manner that you want your brother in a formal setting there is no need to stress and worry, you need to remember this is still an informal meeting," Issei said before vali spoke up.
"You don't have to worry he's just coming to see us" Vali said as she placed 2 cups of tea in front of the two kings before returning to next to the door standing with her hands just above the hem of her skirt.
"Yes the little dragoness is right we'll just see what happens to adapt" Issei said as I noticed a yellow magical circle appear in the middle of the room.
Watching as the magical circle continued to glow brighter and brighter the three of them took her formal positions.
Doing the last-minute preparations such as dusting themselves off and making sure that they were presentable the three young devils soon watched as the yellow magical circle died down, it was quickly replaced with the light from the magic circle died down the light from the sun emanating once again to the two large Victorian-style windows.
standing there in its the place the magical circle stood four people
One was an old man with a long grey, be it and was dressed surprisingly casually for his status as a chief deity, the second was dressed in what appeared to be secretary-style clothing with be long silver-like head which was accompanied but two hair clips with a similar fashion to the head piece of the valkyrie battle armour.
The third of them was well known amongst the group as he was the father of one of the two queens as well as a cadre and a high cadre. Of the the fallen Angel organisation Grigori, His gruff and serious demeanour was one that a lot of the younger members such as Murayama and Asia saw as a sense of almost foreboding doom.
The fourth person in particular didn't need any introduction.
"It is a pleasure to see you again lord odin " Rias said as she bowed towards the king of the north who chuckled at her response.
"Irs good to see you again, my lady but you must remember this is not a formal meeting you do not need to be so formal" He replied chuckling as his aide looked at him with a frustrated expression written across her face.
"I understand that it is not a formal occasion however, you are still meeting with representatives of this region" Rosewisse replied as she looked towards the elderly God who shook his head almost in annoyance at her always serious demeanour
"Oh yes, I guess you are correct, however, everything does not have to be so formal all the time, sometimes my young Valkyre you get more information, and form greater alliances through general conversation" Odin said as he looked towards Silver head valkyrie who nodded in agreement at the lesson that she was just taught.
"Please take a seat" Issei said as he pointed towards the two Sofas sitting in the middle of the room that encompassed a small knee-high coffee table edit centre.
Gathering around the small coffee table the two devil Queens respectfully stood behind the couch where their masters were sitting openly engaging in general conversation with the leader of the Norse faction of Gods.
It wasn't common for the Queens to stand by their king during meetings, listening on matters of state as they were an advisory body to the king.
Sitting down both Issei and Rias notified the God sitting in front of them that they will be soon joined by the third member, Sona Sitri and have heard that she is currently on her way over from attending business elsewhere in Kuoh.
Accepting and nodding with their reasoning on why Leviathan's little sister was not currently in attendance the group began discussing events within the past couple of weeks since I had last seen each other.
As if on purpose the two devils felt that God was steering their conversation in the direction of the power scaling within rias' peerage as a way of almost lecturing them into looking at their friends as political pieces with a deeper analysis and emphasis on this task.
Looking at the redheaded devil in the room the old man began categorically broking down her peerage in terms of power and use on the battlefield.
He had commented that it was very uncommon for any mythological being to share their territory with another especially those of devils who were known for their selfishness.
What was strange was how many there were in his room currently with another on the way, making the small territory the home of three peerages.
Beginning to voice his opinions, everyone within the room almost begins to become a bystander as Odin begins to talk. Beginning by voicing his thoughts out loud the room seemed to listen almost in a trance at what he was saying.
Going through Rias' peerage methodically Odin began with Kiba
Kiba is at the bottom although he has the benefit of speed and with his sacred gear sword birth, Odin likened him to almost a glass cannon. A good straight to have against enemies of weaker power that highly reduces his effectiveness on the battlefield against greater enemies with power.
Next would be Xenovia, Rias' other knight and the wielder of the holy sword Durandal placing her above Lady Gremory's other knight. factor in that she is more of a brawler type night rather than if you were a speedster as her counterpart was the two do pair nicely.
This wasn't to discount the Kiba as from what Issei told him about him he was a much better swordsman on paper and in the field, however, he just lacked the tools and improper imagination to jump above her at the moment.
Next would be her blonde-haired Bishop who perhaps was the most important tool on her whole team, however, she lacked the ability of any real combat use. Yes, she had the slight ability in various forms of magical spell types however if she was fully outclassed her timidness got the better of her.
Koneko was perhaps the strongest of the generic fighters that Rias had at her disposal with the mixture of personal genetics added to the durability that the Rook evil piece had given her, Koneko was a member of the Rias' lower 4 that you could not underestimate.
After that, the old God was finished in what he coined the lower four of her peerage. He soon arrived at what he saw as the top three in her power band, he had reassured her many times in previous conversations that he was not looking down upon her friends as a whole weak but perhaps it was on the contrary they were at the upper eshalon of their class.
Arriving at the top three of the Gremory peerage. Odin felt he noticed his fallen angel bodyguard peering over at him wondering where he would place his daughter.
"Thirdly I'd like to start with placing at the moment your little vampire Bishop boy. Out of all of you, he perhaps has the most potential out of all the group.
the ability of his sacred gear alone as it has the ability from what I spoke to Azazel about to become a Longius in the future. It is a bonus that although he's a half-vampire and doesn't like the taste of blood funnly enough he has some sort of linking with his power output and the blood dragons which enough he is surrounded by four of them at all times and four of them are very high-class Dragons in their own right.
If you only knuckle down and get rid of his phobia of people he has the ability 2 expand exponentially and grow faster than perhaps any of you including your future husband's peerage. But we'll have to wait and see" Odin said as he looked at the 2 remaining members that he had not spoken about.
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'And" Rias said almost eagerly awaiting what the old God would assess them on.
"Well you too pretty much know your power set and the potential that you both have to do anything you both need to learn that you need to be somewhat selfish in your training not putting yours on hold for the sense of others," Oden said as he looked towards the red-headed girl who had her somewhat sound expression across the face at the detailed assessment of her peerage find by the lack of assessment the king and queen of the group.
As if he was almost going to start talking again before the old man could open his mouth the door to the room was opened causing all their attention to be directed towards the people that were entering it. Walking in the room was Sona and Tsubaki
bowing in respect as well as apology towards the group in front of them the two female devils soon took their place with Sona sitting next to Issei and Rias, with Tsubaki standing next to her respected Queens in the room.
"Well saying that we are all here why don't we begin," Sona said respectfully as four leaders in this meeting nodded in agreement as I began to talk
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Night fell over the town of Kuoh and as a result of it being a Tuesday night many within the Township had returned home to their families and loved ones opting to stay in with their families rather than go out on their nightly activities. Due to being mid-week a lot of the companies and corporations in the city centre are not having their weekly drinks or outings after the end of the week as that was set for most Fridays, school children were at home hard studying, reviewing and assessing themselves and what they had learned in the day the past week in the past month in preparation for school exams.
Of course, there were still a few people out about delivery drivers were delivering much-needed supplies to the variety of stores within the city people were doing quick little shops at their local convenience store getting supplies for the night meal or just going down for a chat with the friendly clerk behind the counter.
As a result of these Kuoh was pleasantly quite abandoned and surreal 4 the group that had just concluded the meeting with Odin. Shortly after completing it, Sona and her queen took their leave returning to their house as they did not need to go to the Hyoudou residence for any particular reason as a result of this just left the fallen Angel cadre Baraqueil, his daughter, her king Rias, her husband future husband Issei and his queen Vali accompanying the old man as well as his Valkyre secretary.
All day although they could have easily teleported to their destination without any fuss the old man had wanted to walk through the streets of a small somewhat bustling city in the Japanese countryside. Although there was not much nightlife going on tonight as it was Tuesday the old man enjoyed the difference that he could see between his native homeland and human worshipping land of Germany.
The difference in architecture people's demeanour and even simple things such as the guttering on the edge of the streets struck the old man quitecuriously as although humans were fundamentally the same species different religions ideologies customs and building techniques had spread out all over the world resulting in the one species being quite different from one another on the greens famous things.
The old man had read some human papers with many of them discussing these things almost similarly to convergent evolution however in a sense it was more convergence industrialization that had forced or had all they had rather humans. To appear and act so different from one another.
Chuckling to himself as I walked through a small Market Square where the young devils had off and got a lot of their groceries from it wasn't a surprise to see most of it being quite abandoned at this time with only the convenience store on the corner and the street light is providing any form of light pollution in this dimly lit Market Square. Listening to the almost dead silence of the square the sound of Odin Cain clicked and clacked as he continued down the street almost heating it on selected path pavers or the pavement to make some sort of musical tune as they continued to walk.
Walking down as the group almost reached the convenience store Odin was surprised to see what appeared to be a European man walk out from the store nodding to the female clerk behind the counter as he did so walking outside and looked to his left noticing the group the man girl wicked grin across his face as he spotted them.
Looking closer at him the group noticed that he was wearing somewhat of a teal green suit accompanied by a yellow tie and a white undershirt looking closer at his fingers they noticed that he had 3 golden rings on each hand which were accompanied by green fingernail Polish but the tips of his fingers.
Loki what are you doing here I don't remember authorising you to come to this country" Odin said as the group looked at him shocked at the reveal of the man's true identity.
"I don't think I've ever needed your approval to go anywhere old man," Loki said as he raised his hand towards the old man and shot out a ball of grey norse magic at him causing Odin to raise his walking stick in front of his eyes blocking the attack.
Jumping into a battle position Baraqueil and Issei almost as if it was instint together charged at the other Norse god. Charging towards him at breakneck speed the two members of the biblical faction soon arrived directly in front of Loki, who effortlessly phased into something more of a spirit rather than a physical being.
Causing the two of them to fall through him into the light post and letterbox respectively behind him, the Norse god walked forward as letters exploded out of the mailbox as Issei's body came into contact with it.
Seeing this Rias and Akeno immediately created magical circles over their hands and in preparation for what was to come next, used the opportunity to cast a magical barrier around them to ensure that no human wound was going. Odin with all his wisdom wondered what on earth the Norse God of mischief was getting up to.
"LOKi do not make this worse on yourself" Odin said as he looked towards the green-haired man he smiled as he continued to walk towards the four girls in the old man.
"Is this all 3 factions give you for security old man, perhaps they don't see you as important as the rest of us do….. Maybe they're right, if they don't see you as important as perhaps one of their leaders why should we Norse do the same" he said in a calm demeaning manner before he continued.
"Maybe it's time for you old boys, let's say to step down, Zeus Amun-ra have been in power for too long. Maybe it's time to step down, to let the younger generations take control. You witness the rise of our civilizations but you won't be around for its rebirth" Loki said as a blast of holy lightning came shooting towards him from behind catching him somewhat off guard.
Turns around mid-air as he flies back in response to the counterattack against him. Loki threw his fist into the ground creating a Norse magical circle attack to block an incoming attack that was sent forward by the fallen Angel female who saw both her father and boyfriend get outmenovered.
Angered by this Akeno watched as her attack was dissipated into LOki's magical circle using this as an opportunity to emulate her father and what he was best known for Akeno copied his attack, by creating a magical circle above her head. As almost mirrored what was above her head a magical circle appeared around Loki's head.
Looking up as if almost disinterested in what the girl was planning, he almost silently ignored as the magical circle grew even larger, which caused the god to act.
Blocking the attack that was launched above him Loki eliminated the attack with ease.
Using this to their advantage rias and Rossevise both sent their own demonic and Nordic attacks towards the Norse god causing him to block in front of him as well as behind him creating a wall of Norse circles around him
"This is pathetic old man you let children do your dirty work" Loki said as he sent a wave of magical energy into the ground causing a shockwave to occur sending the four beings that were attacking the Norse God to the knees once more.
See this as an opportunity vali shot forward similarly to her Master in an attempt to at least touch him so that her sacred gear would be the effect, as it was perhaps the only thing that could hopefully bring down Loki once and for all.
Seeing this coming Loki forced himself once again out of the material world almost projecting himself as he flipped throughout the air with after images almost depicting what he was doing at a frame-by-frame rate following him behind.
Appearing above Vali as she shot towards where he once was standing he elegantly placed his foot on the back of her neck forcing her to the ground and beating her speed and momentum against her as she shot through the concrete causing a massive crater to appear in the street below her.
Frustrated with what he was seeing Issei sent two ropes of darkness at Loki latching on his throat, the force that Isseied used to pull Loki off Vali As if almost stunned and offended he lifted the god off his feet.
hocked and frustrated at what had just happened and in what his eyes. That he was touched by a lonely creature.
"You dare touch me" Loki \said he was hit in the back with a strong magical attack causing blood to spit out of his mouth once.
"What" he said shocked that they had caused some damage to him. As he somersaulted into the air from the force of the attack Loki's trajectory was directly through one of the shop fronts of the market directly across from the convenience store that had once walked out of/
Laying there in the rubble somewhat confused at what was going on he began to think of who could cause him harm out of the people that he was currently fighting.
"Odin" he thought to himself knowing that although the cadre was powerful enough to damage him it would take considerable time for what seemed to get a cheap shot off at him,
Using Odin's distraction to his advantage barkhill set a massive lightning bolt down on top of the northern god causing him just scream in anguish and pain.
Using his 10 wings to stabilise himself baroque quickly responded to the god's attack with an attack of his own, connecting with an attack with his daughter creating something of a super holy lightning attack at the Norse god deflected with some hesitation after just being fried by an attack similar to the one that he just deflected.
This is fun he said and she stood up straightening his tie.
"Leave Loki," Rosewisse said as she looked towards him in some discussion.
"Listen to this of valkyre a being that really shouldn't even deserve the class of half God, trying to tell a true God what he can do. How about you learn your place little girl and scurry back to the old man or better yet your grandmother? At least she would put up a challenging fight for me" Loki said as he looked towards the silver head Valkyre she stood firm in her defiance of him at the mention of her grandmother's greatness.
"I've had enough of Loki" Odin said as he slammed his staff on the ground causing a magical circle to appear around Loki.
As if almost instantly the two-dimensional magic hook that had produced itself before turning itself into a triangular 9-dimensional shape trapped him inside.. Slamming his fist against it and the group was surprised to see that only ripples came off and detected it like he was doing not even leaving a scratch on the shield that he was stuck inside of.
"I told you to go home" Odin said as he looked towards Rias she set a large demonic magical circle over the top of Odin causing both the Shield and Loki to vanish to far off place
looking around at the destruction that even this light skirmish had caused to this Japanese St reet Odin scratched his head in frustration at what one of his own had just done.
"Where did you send him," Issei said as he looked towards Rias showing off he had somewhat of a saddle across the face.
"to abandon part of the underworld hopefully now he won't bother us," she said somewhat nicely as Aiden put his hand on her shoulder
"that won't hold him for long you're going to have to get into contact with your brother," Odin said issei folded him quite shocked at the recent revelation
A/N right guys that's it for this chapter finally Loki has made his move and it appears that our heroes have delayed him if only temporarily we will soon find out what happens next and if they asked the Rias' brother what he would do and if they have stopped like he permanently.